What is chemicals used to control pests and fertilizers are chemicals used to boost the productivity of fertilizers
100
Describe erosion?
What is the proccess by which soil is removed from one area and is deposited else where
100
Describe what livestock is.
What is animals raised by people for the animals products.
100
Describe what land conversion is.
What is the conversion of land from a natural state to one designed for agriculture or other human uses.
100
Name a way to help solve the issue sof land conversion?
What is Increase the productivity of converted land, accomodate agriculture to existing landscapes, grow more native spcies.
200
From where do the problems associated with pesticides and fertilizers arise?
What is spreading beyond their intended area.
200
Is erosion a natural process?
What is yes, but humans can contribute as well.
200
Name a way in which livestock affects the land
What is erosion?
200
What is an example of land conversion
What is deforestation
200
Nmae a way a to stop erosion?
What is planting forest buffers, terracing land, etc.
300
What causes eutrophication?
What is excess plant nutrients (nitrates, phospates, and potassium) entering a body of water.
300
Can animals cause erosion?
What is yes
300
How can fisheriews affect water
What is eutrophication
300
Name a solution to the problem of land converstion
What is changing agriculture to fit the landscape not the other way around
300
What is a solution to eutrophication?
What is use ortganic fertlizers, and/or created directed run off systems to prevent soilf rom being lost.
400
Name the steps of eutrophication?
What is exess plant nutrients enter a body of water, algal blooom, these block 6the sun, death of aquatic plants leaeds to oxygen demanding waste, water becomes devoid of oxygen, dead zone.
400
Why is erosion a problem for farmers?
What is soil is the foundation for crop growth.
400
Describe polyculture
What is the practice of growing multiple crops together
400
What does land conversion lead to
What is erosion, reduces biodiversity, and removing a carbon sink
400
What is a way to negate the negative impacts of livestock and fisheries?
What is polyculture
500
Is eutrophication a natural process.
What is yes
500
What happened regarding erosion in the 1930's in the U.S. ?
What is the dust bowl, dry loose earth is blow inro the air, creting dust storms.
500
How does polyculture help the environmental impacts of livestock and fisheries
What is it reflects the natural resilience of an ecosystem and can make it self sufficient so fertilizers won't be needed
500
Where is the most affected area in the United States
What is Great Plains area
500
Why is polyculture beneficial?
What is it resembles the resilency of a natural ecosystem, and some of the organism can use the waste of the other making the systems more efficient, also since each organism aids the other less resources are needed.